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A radio broadcaster and journalist for Edward R. Murrow at CBS, William Shirer was new to the world of broadcast journalism when he began keeping a diary while on assignment in Europe during the 1930's. It was in 1940, when he was still a virtual unknown, that Shirer wondered whether his eyewitness account of the collapse of the world around Nazi Germany could be of any interest or value as a book. Shirer's Berlin Diary, which is considered the first...
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The Berlin bookmobile volume 3
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"A solitary sort, forty-two-year-old Atle Petersheim spends his time hard at work in his wood shop. But as the days get long, he realizes just how lonely he's become. When his longtime crush, Sadie Mast, a widow and mother of three, asks him to help her build a room in their barn for her son Cale, Atle can't say no. Eager to pursue Sadie at last, he turns to bookmobile librarian Sarah Anne Miller for courting advice. More than happy to help, Sarah...
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"Ich weiß nicht, ob es je wieder gut wird. Wie könnte es das?"
Die Herbststürme kommen nach Berlin und in den Kaffeeschenken herrscht Aufruhr. Auf den Straßen werden Bücher verbrannt. Die magische Geheimpolizei wittert überall Verrat. Die Stadt steht vor einer schicksalhaften Entscheidung und der Mann, der sie treffen soll, treibt sich im Vergnügungsviertel herum.
Ein Zauberer, der vor seiner Verantwortung flieht, und eine Erfinderin, die bereits...
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"Miriam and Calvin Gingerich have been trying for a baby for several years, but the Lord hasn't seen fit to bless them. Though Calvin claims he's content with their childless state, Miriam knows he's not, and when he starts spending more time off their farm, she worries he's found someone else. But just as she finds herself at her lowest point, she discovers the ultimate surprise. Unable to confide in anyone who might tell Calvin--out of fear she'll...
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November 1918. A socialist revolution is sweeping across Germany, wreaking havoc on war-torn Berlin. Amid the ruin of the city's slums, four women are found dead-all with identical scars on their backs. Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner and his assistant, Hans Fichte, are baffled by the killings, and when another body is discovered, the case takes an ominous and unexpected turn. The fifth victim is none other than Rosa Luxemburg-a leader of the...
6) On the Brink
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The ultimate struggle for supremacy over Berlin begins…… a stage-worthy walkout of the Soviet delegates from all four-power institutions sets the scene for the next step.On the world stage diplomatic relations are at a breaking point and the Soviet Union and the Western Allies face off in an unforgiving battle of ideologies.Are the Russians really willing to starve two million people in an attempt to push the Western Allies from Berlin?Presented...
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An Intriguing Historical Thriller Set in the Barcelona of the Spanish Civil War
On the eve of Hitler's Olympics, Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner, a half Jew, has been forced out of the Kriminalpolizei. Luckily, Hoffner's focus is elsewhere. His son Georg is missing in Spain, swept up in the sudden outbreak of the civil war. He has already lost Sascha, his elder son, who is fully entrenched in the Nazi regime. But, Georg is not what he appears to...
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Could you betray your own father to escape a life of brutality and oppression?The year is 1948.The city is Berlin.The post-war elation is rapidly losing its glow. Soviet "assistance" begins to resemble a dictatorship, food and supplies grow scarce, and the conflict-ravaged city struggles with basic survival.In an atmosphere of universal suspicion and fear, Zara's life is harder than most. As the daughter of a Nazi war criminal, her every step is monitored...
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Two lovers, separated by politics. How far is one woman willing to go to save the only love she's ever known?
Bruni, a singer and entertainer in Berlin after World War 2 thought she had it all: a career, raving fans, good friends, and an American soldier she loves.
But good things aren't always meant to last.
When her fiancé is injured in a hit-and-run accident and flown out to Wiesbaden, Bruni knows that she must do everything in her power to...
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Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability-at the level of literature, history, and politics-to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.
The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to current modes of thinking...
11) Dead of Night
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As Germany strangles under the tight grip of the Nazi Party, the frozen winter of 1940 brings even more reasons to fear the dark in the crackling new WWII crime novel from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Scarrow – perfect for fans of Philip Kerr's Berlin Trilogy, Robert Ludlum, Andrew Gross, and William Christie…
One freezing night in 1940 Berlin, an SS doctor and his wife return from an evening mingling with their fellow Nazis at...
12) Hinterhaus
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Journalistin Carolin stolpert wider Willen in einen Kriminalfall, der sie tief in die Vergangenheit Ost-Berlins führt. In einem Hinterhaus in Prenzlauer Berg findet sie die Leiche eines seit Langem vermissten Jungen. Doch kaum jemand scheint sich an ihn erinnern zu wollen. Die Hausbewohner schweigen, und die Polizei ermittelt nur halbherzig. Eigentlich hat Carolin andere Sorgen. Ihr Freund ist weg, sie hat keine Wohnung mehr und keinen Job. Aber...
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From New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray comes a new series that follows a bookmobile driver-turned-matchmaker who learns that her Amish patrons need a whole lot more than just new books to read.
Aaron Coblentz has a secret: he's been studying to take the GED to get promoted at work. But he can't let his Amish family know, not when his older brother already left the faith just a year after getting baptized, practically crippling...
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Berlin, between the two world wars. When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. With the help of Fritz Lang (the German director) and Alby Pimm (leader of the most powerful crime syndicate in Berlin), Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlin's...
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This is a story of Annalise Meissner, a young German Jew with long time ago falsified papers, living a carefree life in pre-war Berlin. A talented ballerina, she comes from a wealthy family and at first doesn't want to concern herself with the changes her country starts undergoing under the new Nazi regime. However, when the oppressions against the Jewish population begin, she realizes that she can't be a silent bystander and swears to help her people...
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Ever had a fucked up wolf prowling beneath your skin?
I don't know what peace is anymore. The quiet that comes after a brutal, bloody fight, though…
I'll take that.
The pain helps drown out the loss, even if it doesn't last long enough.
Or gives me what I need most.
When a Leshy ambushes me one night with an offer to come work for the Interspecies Crimes and Relations Agency, I want to laugh in his face. What good could a packless, beaten-down...
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Xander has led a life of luxury with a cushy job in the family business. After his father's mysterious disappearance, Xander became CEO of the multi-million dollar, international enterprise and tries to prove himself to everyone, including himself.
Xander discovers encrypted files in his father's hidden safe that detail his illicit activities. His father was more than disreputable-he was a member of a secret and diabolical organization whose sole...
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Berlin, 1924. Hulda Gold arbeitet in der neuen Frauenklinik in Berlin-Mitte und versorgt dort die Frauen und ihre Neugeborenen. Die Geburtshilfe ist modern, Berlin am medizinischen Puls der Zeit. Doch es kommt zu einem tragischen Todesfall: Eine junge Schwangere stirbt bei einer Operation, die ausgerechnet der ehrgeizige Chef-Gynäkologe Egon Breitenstein durchführt. Zufällig stößt Hulda auf Ungereimtheiten, die einen üblen Verdacht keimen lassen....
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Berlin, 1923. Hebamme Hulda Gold wird zu einer Geburt ins Scheunenviertel gerufen. Die ju?dische Familie lebt nach ihren ganz eigenen, strengen Regeln, aber Hulda gewinnt das Vertrauen der jungen Mutter. Und als das Neugeborene nach wenigen Tagen verschwindet, wird sie unvermittelt in die rätselhafte Suche verstrickt. Denn wie kann ein Kind in dieser engen Gemeinschaft einfach so verschwinden? Bald zeigt sich, dass auch die Berliner Polizei nach...
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"Ulla hat den Mut, ihrer Leidenschaft zu folgen und für ihre Überzeugungen einzustehen." Ulrike Renk
1919: Der Krieg ist zu Ende, und Ursulas große Liebe Heinrich Dehmel kehrt nach Hause zurück. Sie planen eine gemeinsame Zukunft, doch Ursula, von ihren Freunden Ulla genannt, hat Zweifel: Wird sie als Ehefrau ihre künstlerische Eigenständigkeit wahren können? Lässt sich ihr Beruf als Gestalterin mit einer Familie vereinbaren? Schließlich...
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